Feature request: Provide an MCP server wrapper / bridge

[Michael-Logies]

Summary

cli-anything-zotero is the most powerful tool in our Zotero stack for imports, full-text search, notes and direct JS access. Because it is a Python CLI invoked over SSH, it cannot be used directly by MCP clients such as Kimi Code, Claude Desktop or Cline without custom shell wrappers. An official MCP-server wrapper would make the tool accessible to a much larger audience.

Observed workflow today

From the Linux AI client we call:

ssh windows-host "zotero-cli item get F5724CQV"

This works, but:

• The AI client cannot discover available tools/schema automatically.
• Each call incurs SSH startup overhead.
• Error handling and streaming must be managed manually.

Suggested solution

Ship a small cli-anything-zotero-mcp entry point (or an mcp subcommand) that exposes the existing CLI commands as MCP tools, e.g.:

• item_get
• item_notes
• search_fulltext
• note_add
• item_citation
• add_doi
• js

The wrapper would reuse the existing JS-bridge backend and simply translate JSON-RPC calls into CLI invocations.

Context

Full comparison of Zotero tools (including why a Memory-MCP server helps manage several tools):

• https://www.logies.de/zotero-mcp-server-beaver-comparison.html
• https://www.logies.de/memory-mcp-for-ai-agents.html

Why it matters

With an MCP wrapper, cli-anything-zotero could become the default Zotero backend for coding agents, combining the power of the JS bridge with the ergonomics of MCP tool discovery.